[Foundation-l] Election Results

Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 23:07:23 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com>wrote:

> While I personally am very pleased with the results, I wonder how the
> election results will be perceived outside Wikimedia.
> With numerous media outlets reacting to PARC's research about the state of
> the community, I fear this endorsement of seemingly "old guard" Wikimedians
> as our Board representation will support claims about the community
> becoming
> unfriendly to new participants.
> Thoughts? Am I being too nervous, or do others see that potential too?
>
>
> Steven Walling
>
>
Yes, you're becoming too nervous.
We're doing fine, we're doing right, we had and election and we have decided
who's going to be on board.

Whatever the "media outlets" want to think is not somethign we should lose
sleep over to.


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